2 Peter 1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:13

2 Peter 1:13. Yea, I think it meet— St. Peter accounted it δικαιον, meet, that is, becoming his character and office, as one of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, and proper for them, as professed Christians in such a situation. With great propriety and beauty, he calls his own body a tabernacle: it was not like a house, a firm fixed building, likely to stand for some ages; but a structure comparatively light and weak, and which was shortly to be taken down: like the travelling tents of the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:14

2 Peter 1:14. Knowing that shortly I must put off, &c.— Knowing that the laying aside of this my tabernacle approacheth swiftly, in the manner that the Lord Jesus Christ hath made known unto me. Our Lord not only told St. Peter that he was to die a violent death, but also the manner of it: John 21:18-19. It is inquired, "How did St. Peter know that he was to die shortly?" Now it is generally agreed, that our Lord, in the place above quoted, foretold him that he was to die a violent death;... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:15

2 Peter 1:15. To have these things always in remembrance.— The things which they were to have always in remembrance, were, the necessity of experiencing and practising the graces and virtues of the Christian life, mentioned 2 Peter 1:5. &c. and that if they did so, they should have an abundant entrance into Christ's everlasting kingdom of happiness. More important truths they could not remember; these things St. Peter had preached during his life; and he wrote these two epistles, that the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:16

2 Peter 1:16. Cunningly-devised fables,— Sophistical fables. Benson. For there was nothing fabulous, or artfully invented, in the information that we gave you, of the powerful advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; but we ourselves were eye-witnesses of his majesty. Heylin. This epistle of St. Peter was written to support and maintain the hopes and expectations which he had raised by the first; wherein much weight is laid on the expectation of Christ's coming in all his power and glory. It is very... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:19

2 Peter 1:19. We have also a more sure word of prophesy;— It would swell this note into a very considerable treatise, if we were to give the numerous interpretations and different opinions on this much-controverted passage. We shall therefore content ourselves with three solutions; referring those who desire to enter more deeply into the subject, to the larger discussions of Sherlock, &c. I. By the word of prophesy, says Benson, I understand the same thing with what is called, 2 Peter 1:20,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:20

2 Peter 1:20. Knowing this first,— The apostle here assigns an important reason why they were to attend to the word of prophesy as long as they lived; namely, because it was not of human device, but of divine original. Dr. Mill has in few words given the sense of this place: "In writing this, the prophet did not interpret or explain his own mind, but the mind and will of the Holy Spirit with which he was inspired." This interpretation is agreeable to the usual sense of the word επιλυσις, and is... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1

CHAPTER 1 :-. ADDRESS: EXHORTATION TO ALL GRACES, AS GOD HAS GIVEN US, IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST, ALL THINGS PERTAINING TO LIFE: CONFIRMED BY THE TESTIMONY OF APOSTLES, AND ALSO PROPHETS, TO THE POWER AND COMING OF CHRIST. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1:1

1. Simon—the Greek form: in oldest manuscripts, "Symeon" (Hebrew, that is, "hearing), as in :-. His mention of his original name accords with the design of this Second Epistle, which is to warn against the coming false teachers, by setting forth the true "knowledge" of Christ on the testimony of the original apostolic eye-witnesses like himself. This was not required in the First Epistle. servant—"slave": so Paul, Romans 1:1. to them, c.—He addresses a wider range of readers (all believers)... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1:2

2. Grace . . . peace— ( :-). through—Greek, "in": the sphere IN which alone grace and peace can be multiplied. knowledge—Greek, "full knowledge." of God, and of Jesus our Lord—The Father is here meant by "God," but the Son in 2 Peter 1:1: marking how entirely one the Father and Son are (2 Peter 1:1- :). The Vulgate omits "of God and"; but oldest manuscripts support the words. Still the prominent object of Peter's exhortation is "the knowledge of Jesus our Lord" (a phrase only in Romans 4:24),... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1:3

3. According as, c.—Seeing that [ALFORD]. "As He hath given us ALL things (needful) for life and godliness, (so) do you give us ALL diligence," &c. The oil and flame are given wholly of grace by God, and "taken" by believers: their part henceforth is to "trim their lamps" (compare 2 Peter 1:3 2 Peter 1:4; 2 Peter 1:5, c.). life and godliness—Spiritual life must exist first before there can be true godliness. Knowledge of God experimentally is the first step to life (John 17:3). The child... read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:13

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:15

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:16

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:19

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Peter 1:20

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1:2

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - 2 Peter 1:3

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